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- Pre-finals free time? Visit the Queen Mary, 1 Nearby parking lots may get facelift See News, page 2 Meet the Boonies: Bret and father Bob live to play baseball See Sports, page 32
top local restaurants See Feature, page 11 j Aid pullback will punish students See Viewpoint, page 5
dMHw trojan
Volume CVIII, Number 61
University of Southern California
Wednesday, April 19, 1989
In Brief
From the Associated Prem
WORLD
Thousands flee Beirut during brief cease-fire
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Thousands of civilians fled West Beirut on Tuesday as Christian and Syrian gunners held their fire briefly to allow the evacuation of 70 severely wounded Muslims to a French hospital ship.
Hundreds of cars packed with suitcases, mattresses and blankets sped down a seaside highway to South and East Lebanon as wounded were assembled outside the home of acting Prime Minister Slim Hoss.
NATION
Prosecutors compare Ollie North, Joe Isuzu
WASHINGTON — Oliver North was portrayed to his trial jury Tuesday as a liar who couldn’t stop, and as “the Joe Isuzu of government” who followed Hitler’s maxim that “the victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
Said prosecutor John Keker, in final arguments at North’s trial: “If Ollie North wanted to get it done, he didn’t care if he broke the law.”
LOCAL
Lucille Ball, 77, suffers apparent heart attack
Lucille Ball, the zany redhead who reigned as queen of comedy for decades, suffered an apparent heart attack Tuesday and was rushed into surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said.
Ball, 77, arrived at the hospital about noon with her husband, Gary Morton, and doctors said she had suffered a heart attack. The comedienne was conscious when she arrived at the hospital.
INSIDE
Viewpoint..................................... 4 Komix............................................. 6 Security Roundup....................... 6 Feature...........................................11
Sports.......................................... 32
WEATHER
Today —
Possible drizzle with high in upper 60s Thursday — Partly cloudy with high in mid-70s
Shoot ’em up, Rodney
David MHhou* / Daily Trojan
Skull and Dagger society members Steve Falk and Rodney Peete joined in a variety of campuswide pranks and practical Jokes Tuesday. The society announced its new members Monday.
The bridge to nowhere
Bookstore overpass's fate: An ornament or walkway?
By Kevin Cullinane
Staff Writer
With the grand opening of the new bookstore set for June, the bridge stretching from the store's east side still leads nowhere.
The bookstore's second-floor overpass extends toward Commons Restaurant but does not connect the two buildings. It's uncertain whether the walkway will ever tie them together.
"Who knows?'' said Richard Stupin, associate director of new construction. "Right now it's just there."
But Jack Arnold, bookstore director, said the university never intended to connect the two buildings.
The structure is simply part of the new bookstore's architectural design, Arnold said.
"It makes it look like the buildings are tied together," he said. "It may be covered with a plexiglass dome, used for student art displays or anything the imagination can think of."
Eric Alleyne, Commons general manager, indicated the bridge was for aesthetic appeal only.
"It's part of an architectural design," Alleyne said, adding that he is not disturbed that the passway almost touches Commons' second level.
But Eugene Lawless, executive director of the bookstore and Dining Services, said he expects the structure to be more than just an ornament.
"We expect to connect it with Commons sometime in the future," Lawless said.
A plaza between the bookstore and Commons will attract students to the store from the Grill and Carl's Jr., he said.
(See Bookstore, page 9)
Students evaluate professors, courses
New forms circulated; 60,000 to be processed
By Tracy Imes
Staff Writer
Purple forms and No. 2 pencils are circulating throughout classrooms this week as students once again evaluate their courses and professors.
USC Evaluation Services expects to process 60,000 forms from students in 37 departments and schools, said research assistant Eyi Zhao.
"Not all of the departments use the service. Some do evaluations themselves or have others do them," Zhao said. "The
process starts midsemester as we send out request forms to various departments. This semester we are using a new form, but the questionnaire is the same as those used last semester."
The evaluation format changed because of a switch in the type of computer used to process the forms, she said.
"We sent the forms to the Norwalk school district for processing, and now we use the computer center. The computers are different, which is why we changed the scanner forms."
The evaluation forms have two portions: a computer-scored question section and one for students' written comments.
The forms are distributed in class, col-
lected by the department representatives or students, and the computerized portions are sent to the evaluation services for processing while the departments keep the written comments.
Once the evaluations have been processed, results for each professor are placed in a separate file, where they are reviewed if a professor is up for a promotion, said Joan Nay, executive director of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"It's a departmental function, and faculty are evaluated every three years, while junior faculty or assistant professors are evaluated every year," Nay said.
(See Evaluations, page 24)
Professor wins humanism award, joins honorees Sagan, Asimov
By Rebecca Shea
Staff Writer
A university professor's work on behalf of the elderly has won him the title humanist of the year, an honor previously bestowed on the likes of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov and Cornell University astro-moner Carl Sagan.
Gerald Larue, professor emeritus of biblical history and archaeology, was named last week as this year's honor-ee by the American Humanist Assn.
The organization, whose major emphasis is human welfare and human beings, has also previously honored feminist Be tty Friedan, a visiting professor in the School of Journalism.
"It's a very great honor to be in the company of such tremendous people," Larue said. "To feel that I am even included in this roster of people is a great honor, and I'm very moved."
(See Award, page 23)

- Pre-finals free time? Visit the Queen Mary, 1 Nearby parking lots may get facelift See News, page 2 Meet the Boonies: Bret and father Bob live to play baseball See Sports, page 32
top local restaurants See Feature, page 11 j Aid pullback will punish students See Viewpoint, page 5
dMHw trojan
Volume CVIII, Number 61
University of Southern California
Wednesday, April 19, 1989
In Brief
From the Associated Prem
WORLD
Thousands flee Beirut during brief cease-fire
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Thousands of civilians fled West Beirut on Tuesday as Christian and Syrian gunners held their fire briefly to allow the evacuation of 70 severely wounded Muslims to a French hospital ship.
Hundreds of cars packed with suitcases, mattresses and blankets sped down a seaside highway to South and East Lebanon as wounded were assembled outside the home of acting Prime Minister Slim Hoss.
NATION
Prosecutors compare Ollie North, Joe Isuzu
WASHINGTON — Oliver North was portrayed to his trial jury Tuesday as a liar who couldn’t stop, and as “the Joe Isuzu of government” who followed Hitler’s maxim that “the victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
Said prosecutor John Keker, in final arguments at North’s trial: “If Ollie North wanted to get it done, he didn’t care if he broke the law.”
LOCAL
Lucille Ball, 77, suffers apparent heart attack
Lucille Ball, the zany redhead who reigned as queen of comedy for decades, suffered an apparent heart attack Tuesday and was rushed into surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said.
Ball, 77, arrived at the hospital about noon with her husband, Gary Morton, and doctors said she had suffered a heart attack. The comedienne was conscious when she arrived at the hospital.
INSIDE
Viewpoint..................................... 4 Komix............................................. 6 Security Roundup....................... 6 Feature...........................................11
Sports.......................................... 32
WEATHER
Today —
Possible drizzle with high in upper 60s Thursday — Partly cloudy with high in mid-70s
Shoot ’em up, Rodney
David MHhou* / Daily Trojan
Skull and Dagger society members Steve Falk and Rodney Peete joined in a variety of campuswide pranks and practical Jokes Tuesday. The society announced its new members Monday.
The bridge to nowhere
Bookstore overpass's fate: An ornament or walkway?
By Kevin Cullinane
Staff Writer
With the grand opening of the new bookstore set for June, the bridge stretching from the store's east side still leads nowhere.
The bookstore's second-floor overpass extends toward Commons Restaurant but does not connect the two buildings. It's uncertain whether the walkway will ever tie them together.
"Who knows?'' said Richard Stupin, associate director of new construction. "Right now it's just there."
But Jack Arnold, bookstore director, said the university never intended to connect the two buildings.
The structure is simply part of the new bookstore's architectural design, Arnold said.
"It makes it look like the buildings are tied together," he said. "It may be covered with a plexiglass dome, used for student art displays or anything the imagination can think of."
Eric Alleyne, Commons general manager, indicated the bridge was for aesthetic appeal only.
"It's part of an architectural design," Alleyne said, adding that he is not disturbed that the passway almost touches Commons' second level.
But Eugene Lawless, executive director of the bookstore and Dining Services, said he expects the structure to be more than just an ornament.
"We expect to connect it with Commons sometime in the future," Lawless said.
A plaza between the bookstore and Commons will attract students to the store from the Grill and Carl's Jr., he said.
(See Bookstore, page 9)
Students evaluate professors, courses
New forms circulated; 60,000 to be processed
By Tracy Imes
Staff Writer
Purple forms and No. 2 pencils are circulating throughout classrooms this week as students once again evaluate their courses and professors.
USC Evaluation Services expects to process 60,000 forms from students in 37 departments and schools, said research assistant Eyi Zhao.
"Not all of the departments use the service. Some do evaluations themselves or have others do them," Zhao said. "The
process starts midsemester as we send out request forms to various departments. This semester we are using a new form, but the questionnaire is the same as those used last semester."
The evaluation format changed because of a switch in the type of computer used to process the forms, she said.
"We sent the forms to the Norwalk school district for processing, and now we use the computer center. The computers are different, which is why we changed the scanner forms."
The evaluation forms have two portions: a computer-scored question section and one for students' written comments.
The forms are distributed in class, col-
lected by the department representatives or students, and the computerized portions are sent to the evaluation services for processing while the departments keep the written comments.
Once the evaluations have been processed, results for each professor are placed in a separate file, where they are reviewed if a professor is up for a promotion, said Joan Nay, executive director of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"It's a departmental function, and faculty are evaluated every three years, while junior faculty or assistant professors are evaluated every year," Nay said.
(See Evaluations, page 24)
Professor wins humanism award, joins honorees Sagan, Asimov
By Rebecca Shea
Staff Writer
A university professor's work on behalf of the elderly has won him the title humanist of the year, an honor previously bestowed on the likes of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov and Cornell University astro-moner Carl Sagan.
Gerald Larue, professor emeritus of biblical history and archaeology, was named last week as this year's honor-ee by the American Humanist Assn.
The organization, whose major emphasis is human welfare and human beings, has also previously honored feminist Be tty Friedan, a visiting professor in the School of Journalism.
"It's a very great honor to be in the company of such tremendous people," Larue said. "To feel that I am even included in this roster of people is a great honor, and I'm very moved."
(See Award, page 23)